Anthere writes:
I perfectly agree it might be a solution, and a good one for RK to show his good will. And I definitly support this kind of solution. But this can only be an option endorsed by RK himself. Not forced on him. There is a huge difference between real life and Wikipedia. We chose to participate and be part of Wikipedia community. We can also choose not to. And that will be okay.
Interesting idea. Here are my thoughts:
(A) Even if it helped me or someone else out, I wouldn't want to "force" anyone to edit certain types of articles as community service. However, we do not and cannot force anyone to do anything. Everything here is volunteer work, thus my concern vanishes in practical terms.
(B) It seems counter-intutive to suggest this for a volunteer project. However, there is a practical way to make this work: Wikipedia has several lists of articles that are orphaned, that are stubs, or that don't exist - yet are requested. Few people take the time to work on them. Thus. Wikipedia community service could this take the form of working on orphans, stubs and requests (and/or articles of a similar nature.
Given the above, I endorse Anthere's option.
(As someone else here mentioned, when all you have is a hammer, you tend to see everything as a nail. If Wikipedia had a few more tools, people wouldn't be forced to use the same solution for every situation. If people wanted nothing but a hammer, they will have self-limited what they can build by their own restrictive choice.)
Robert (RK)
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